RASC News Agency: Munir Akram, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has linked the growing security threats in his country to terrorist activities originating from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, describing it as the primary source of regional instability. Addressing a UN Security Council session on Monday, March 17, Akram asserted that the Taliban has failed to curb ISIS and has collaborated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in orchestrating cross-border attacks on Pakistani territory. He called for immediate UN Security Council intervention to address the terrorist threat emanating from Afghanistan. Referring to recent attacks in Pakistan, Akram claimed to possess credible evidence indicating that these assaults were financially and logistically supported from within Afghanistan.
Akram further emphasized that Afghanistan’s territory must not be exploited as a staging ground for attacks on neighboring states and that no entity within the country should provide sanctuary to terrorist elements. His remarks come amid an unprecedented surge in militant attacks across Pakistan in recent weeks. Last Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also accused the Taliban of releasing thousands of militants from Afghan prisons, many of whom, he claimed, are now actively engaged in insurgency against the Pakistani government.
However, Akram’s latest denunciation of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as a regional terrorism hub stands in stark contrast to his previous position. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan with the backing of Pakistan’s intelligence services, Akram served as a diplomatic advocate for the group, even defending its ethnocentric and repressive policies against women on international platforms.
